Strange Flowers

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In 1973, 20-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What – and who – she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever.

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Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

‘You have to truly love people to write like this’ RACHEL JOYCE

‘One of the greatest novels of this centurySUNDAY INDEPENDENT

‘Gorgeously wrought’ GUARDIAN

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.

Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.

Five years later, Moll returns. What – and who – she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever.

Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.

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‘Outstanding … Tender and beautifully written’ INDEPENDENT

All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages’ KATHLEEN MACMAHON

Exquisite . . . Beautiful’ ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID

‘Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them’ RÓNÁN HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL

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Weight 0.168 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.7 × 1.5 cm
Book_author

Ryan, Donal

Publisher

Black Swan Ireland

Imprint

Black Swan Ireland

Cover

Paperback

Pages

229

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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